BGZ Circle Walking & XYQ Pan Gen Part Three

See: Part One and Part Two

...It's important to look at the characters and word of 盤(simp.盘)根 Pan Gen (Coiling Roots) as it symbolizes what Baguazhang and Circle Walking strives to bring about in the practitioners body and one of the skills that is primary to Baguazhang's fighting strategy.

BGZ's Circle Walking & XYQ's Pan Gen (Coiling Root)/ Na Gua (Incorporating the Trigrams) Part Two

READ Bagua circle walking PART ONE here

A famous practitioner of 形意拳 Xingyiquan and student of 李洛能 Li Luoneng aka 李能然 Li Nengran was 宋世荣 Song Shirong (1849 - 1927), and having had seen the benefits of Baguazhang's Circle Walking firsthand he then had incorporated the Circle Walking into Xingyiquan and called it 宋氏形意拳纳卦 Song Style Xingyiquan 'Nagua' (Incorporating the Trigrams) or 盘根 'Pan Gen' (Coiling Root) as it's more commonly known...